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Heads of Judea and Samaria: "No entry to inspectors of the freeze on settlements"
The heads of the Yesha Council and the Local Councils of Judea and Samaria convened an emergency meeting and announced: No entry for inspectors from the Civil Administration, and call the West Bank construction moratorium “immoral, anti-Zionist, and inhumane.” Is their defiance something new?
In their statement, the settler leaders said, "The government's decision is illegitimate, immoral, anti-Zionist and inhumane, and we will continue to develop the land with or without the government.
"The decision violates the basic rights of some 300,000 Israelis who reside in the West Bank and promotes the establishment of a Palestinian state in the heart of the Land of Israel which threatens the State of Israel's existence," the statement read.
In addition to banning the entry of inspectors to the communities, the council heads removed their responsibility for supervising building in the communities as it was until now, as they also removed their authority for giving new permits.
The council heads instructed local engineers not to cooperate with Civil Administration inspectors. it was also decided that the local council heads will lead a political and public campaign against the construction moratorium.
Also on Monday, Gush Etzion Regional Council head Shaul Goldstein sent a letter to the Cabinet's ministers in which he compared the construction freeze to Israel's unilateral pullout from Gaza in 2005.
"Before the ink dried on the Cabinet's decision and before the government decided on the topic, the building inspectors hurried to find prohibited building starts in the communities. We have always known that the Israeli government under your leadership is efficient and effective on any subject and especially on supervision of construction throughout the country, and therefore the inspectors were quick to diligently monitor the communities of Judea and Samaria," Goldstein wrote.
"As you know," he added, "The state’s workers derive their energy to fill their mission from the spirit of the command. And you are the spirit of this command. Your silence is interpreted as consent and approval to stop the construction and to be pedantic with the builders."
"Don't apologize in a few months or years for not understanding that this (freeze) marks the destruction of the settlement enterprise," he wrote.
Will they be able to prevent the inspectors from entering the communities and supervising the construction? Only the frozen days ahead of us will tell.
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